Actress Marisa Guterman Sues DreamHost

March 4, 2008  (HOSTSEARCH.COM)  Actress Marisa Guterman is suing web hosting provider DreamHost, it was reported by a number of sources recently, especially PageSix.com (http://www.pagesix.com). Ms. Guterman, who had a role in the 2005 Steve Carell film The 40 Year Old Virgin, alleges the company registered her name as a domain without her consent.

In the The 40 Year Old Virgin Ms. Guterman plays a character - simply called Girl with Braces - who wears extremely prominent and unattractive dental braces. Ms. Guterman, who is suing DreamHost for invasion of privacy through the Los Angeles Superior Court, contended that the companys domain redirected visitors to pages featuring orthodontics, dentistry, and singing lessons, as well as unauthorized images of herself.

Established in April 1996, DreamHost is a trademark of New Dream Network, LLC and bills itself as being owned by its employees. The company offers a range of green services including shared hosting, dedicated servers and domain name registration. The company caters for over half a million domain names and utilizes a network of mainly Debian GNU/Linux-based servers.